Google adds 80 Mexican media outlets to News Showcase

Tech giant Google officially launched its content curation and licensing program in Mexico Google News Showcasewhich included 80 media outlets, 35 publishing groups and 10 digital native media outlets, “with a view to the upcoming democratic processes in Mexico,” according to the company.

News Showcase is a platform where the media can customize the format and distribution that their content will have in two other applications: Google news and Google Discovery (the search service on devices with the Android operating system, owned by Google). Google adds 80 Mexican media outlets to News

The news “packages” that the media publish through News Showcase will generate financial compensation for the media outlet in question. The media participating in this program will receive a fixed monthly fee for the curation of their articles; In addition, they will be able to provide information that has been published in their paid versions.

In accordance with Google Mexicothe company has been in conversations with different Mexican media for more than a year and, although there are no defined parameters for the integration of these media into News Showcase, the impact that both media have regionally and locally and the quality of its news.

Among the media that Google has included in News Showcase are those that belong to the Alianza de Medios MX, such as the newspaper El Universal and the weekly Proceso; as well as Grupo ABC, Grupo Reforma and Debate. The company hopes to add several other media outlets to this program in the coming months.

In 2021, Richard Gingras, Vice President of News at Google, announced the arrival of Google News Showcase to several countries in Latin America, including Mexico. The manager assured at that time that the remuneration that the media would receive would be based on criteria such as the size of their audience and their digital and print circulation. (Google adds 80 Mexican media outlets to News )

during your event Google for Mexico 2022in which the company presents the impact of its initiatives and services in the country, Andrea Fornes, Director of News Product Alliances at Google for Latin America, announced the arrival of Google News Showcase in Mexico and announced that the company had already established agreements with six publishing groups and 40 media outlets.

Without the Google search engine, the media would lose a distribution channel that is essential for their future survival. At the same time, without the media, Google would have a hard time indexing Internet content in the absence of certain veracity and credibility parameters that the media provide.